American Museum and Gardens
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The American Museum and Gardens is a museum of American art and culture based at Claverton, near Bath, England. Its collections of American furniture, quilts and folk art are displayed in a Grade I li
Claverton Manor, which houses the main museum collection
Bath stone
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Bath stone is an oolitic limestone comprising granular fragments of calcium carbonate originally obtained from the Middle Jurassic aged Great Oolite Group of the Combe Down and Bathampton Down Mines u
American Museum and Gardens
…and (from 1609) Martin Bassett, whose son William (d.1656) and grandson William (d.1693) were also MPs. In 1758 it was bought by Ralph Allen, owner of Bath stone quarries, and in 1816 by John Vivian, who replaced the earlier manor house (near Claverton church) with the present house on its elevated site. Vivian's…
40 Great Pultney Street, Bath
Great Pulteney Street, Bath, looking West towards Pulteney Bridge. The style and the Bath stone used are typical of much of the city.
No. 1 Royal Crescent, Bath in direct sunlight
An old crane at Freshford Quarry